Stock-car



(No Model.) '2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

J. M. Hom-arr.l

' STOCK UAB..

No.` 267,530. ,x Patented Nom-14, 1882'.

2 sheetssheet 2. J. M. HOLDEN.

STOCK- GAR.-

Patented Nov. 14, 1882'.

WITNEEEEE @Jl/4 UNTTED STATESV PATENT Ormea.

JOEL HOLDEN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

' STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 267,530, dated November 14, 1882,

Application led July 10, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom tt may concern:

Be it known that I, JOEL M. HOLDEN, a citizen of the Unit-ed States, residing at Boston, county of Suffolk, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stock-Cars, (which have not been patented to myself or to others, with my consent or knowledge, in any foreign counti y 5) and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description, which will enable others to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in' cars for carrying stock or cattle, preventing the necessity of unloading them to feed or water them, and the subsequent reloading, thus saving expense and time and preventing the cruel treatment of animals in carrying them long distances without food or Water, unloading them, and reloading.

By my improvement each animal is properly fed and watered in the cars, having separate troughs for food and water, and no loss of time occurs in loading or unloading, and much less expense attends their transport. Iattain these objects by the devices and arrangements illustrated in the accompanying drawings, .in which- Figure l is an interior view taken from one end of the car. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of one end ofthe car, taken on line e z, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional View on line y y, Fig. 4. Fig. 4t is a plan of one end of the car. Fig. 5 is a section of the same, taken on linezz, Fig. 1.

A represents the end of the car. B represents the cattle-stanchions, serving to keep the animals in place. a a a a are tunnel-month bins holding a bushel (more or less) of grain or other animal food. b b b are receptacles under said tunnel-mouth bins, ot' size sufficient to hold enough food for each animal, the bottom of said bins andfood-receptacles are opened and closed by levers 7L and rods and sliding plates t' t andjj, so that one movement of the lever opens the bottom of the food-receptacles and closes the outlet of the tunnel-month bins, and vice versa. Pipes of requisite dimensions lead from each ioodreceptacle into a feedtrough in front ofeach animal. Doors on ythe top ofthe car, p p, enable the bins to be filled as desired. Thus one movement of the lever supplies the requisite quantity of food to each animal on that line.

It is desirable also that separate troughs should be used for food and water.

In the drawings, n represents the foodtrough, and d the Water-trough.

Heretofore, in someinstances, the rid ge-beam of the car-body has been made trough-shaped, into which the water is received from the road side Water-crane, and from thence conducted by vertical pipes into the drinking-trough; but such a ridge-beam trough would be impractical. Itherefore use a'tunnel-month pipe, (marked e upon the drawings,)l into which the water-crane on the roadside may be readily placed, and from thence horizontal pipes g issue, conveying the water, and smaller distributing-pipes,f, leadiuto the water-troughs d in front of each animal. iThe walking-planks (marked o) on the top ofthe car, with a hinge, form a door or cover, 0, for the water-tunnel, which is ush with the roof of the car, serving to keep out dust and cinders. By these improvements, and by means of the doors and openingsin the top of thecar, the train-men, by operating the levers, can supply the cattle with sufficient food in measured quantity for each animal, and by means of the water-pipes, as described, they can be supplied with water, thus carrying them comfortably at much less expense without loss of time, and they will arrive at thcirjourneys end in as good or in better condition than when placed in the cars.

I am aware that feed-troughs, reservoirs for food, Water-tanks, and conducting-pipes have been applied to stock cars, and therefore do not claim them broadly; but I claim the construction and com bination of the devices herein described, as set forth in theclaims.

Havingdescribed my invention, whatI claim as new therein, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

l. A stock-car having a multiple trough eX- tending transversely across the car, provided with feed-compartments u and a Water-compartment, d, arranged side by side, each feedcompartment being supplied through a vertical pipe direct from the bottom of a measuringreceptacle connected at its top to a tunnelmonthed bin, the top of which bin is below the roof of the car, each bin being filled through IOO a separate trap door directly above it vin the roof', the said receptacles and bins being provided with two sets of sliding plates having openings for regulating and measuring the feed, and operated by rods and levers, While the watencompartnient is supplied through a vertical pipe leading to a horizontal pipe which connects with a vertical tunnel-mouthed pipe, a, extending;` to the top of the car, substantially as described.

2. A stock-car having a water-trough, a tunnel-mouthed supply-pipe placed beneath the Walking-plank of' the car7 and a. pipe connecting the trough and tunnel-mouthed supplypipe, the top of said tunnelmoutbed pipe being Hush With the root' of the car and covered by tbc walking-plank, which latter is hinged to admit of access to the tunnel, substantially as described.

JOEL H. HOLDEN.

Vitnesses:

GEORGE E. BELTON, GEO. D. BURTON. 

